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Emotional toll of sentencing undocumented immigrants

President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy at the border means everyone who crosses illegally and is caught will be prosecuted. That’s expected to swell lock-ups and courtrooms. The policy is new for the border in California, but it’s been happening for years in New Mexico. One judge there has handed down 15,000 sentences since 2003. He admits that he presides over a system that destroys families.

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President Trump is in Singapore meeting Kim Jong-Un. Trump wants North Korea’s leader to give up the country’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions. But Trump left behind a very unhappy group of seven this weekend, refusing to sign a joint communique.

The Supreme Court upheld Ohio’s decision to purge its voting rolls of people who haven’t cast ballots in a while. The decision was split along ideological lines, with the conservative justices in the majority. Also last week, the Supreme Court sided with a Colorado man who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple.

President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy at the border means everyone who crosses illegally and is caught will be prosecuted. That’s expected to swell lock-ups and courtrooms. The policy is new for the border in California, but it’s been happening for years in New Mexico. One judge there has handed down 15,000 sentences since 2003. He admits that he presides over a system that destroys families.

Often when President Trump reads a document, he’ll rip it up. But because, by law, his correspondence must be preserved, it falls on a couple of staffers to literally scotch tape the pieces back together again.